Sociology of law crime punishment organizations. Weba core text for the law and society or sociology of law course offered in sociology, criminal justice, political science, and schools of law. · john sutton offers. Blind justice’ features how john sutton narrowly survived an assassination attempt in his coral gables, florida, home in august 2004. Contrasts normative and sociological perspectives on law; Presents a primer on the logic of research and inference as applied to law related issues;. Origins, interactions, and change. Sutton, professor of sociology at the university of california, santa barbara. He specializes in historical sociology, the sociology of law, economic sociology, and the.